Learning Theory
The ability to transfer skills/ behaviors learned in one area to other life domains.
What is Generalization?
The maximum amount of time a youth can be held in a restraint before they must be released.
What is 15 minutes?
The ideal ratio of positive to negative teachings.
What is 4:1-6:1?
Look at person, say "okay", avoid arguing, and correct the behavior.
What is Accepting Consequences?
The first and last names of the couple who dreamt up and funded the creation of The Marsh Foundation.
George and Hilinda Marsh
A process for teaching more complex or difficult skills that are not currently in the youth's repertoire.
Shaping
The two things considered when using the decision-making matrix to determine risk.
What is severity and likelihood.
The teaching procedure used to reinforce appropriate behaviors.
What is Effective Praise?
Sit quietly, offer to guests first, say "please" and "thank you", engage in appropriate conversation, chew with mouth closed, and avoid belching aloud.
What is Table Manners?
The code for the fire box.
What is 1111?
The contingent withdrawal of reinforcement or privilege following a behavior.
What is Response Cost?
This level of the Crisis Development Model includes Tension Reduction and Therapeutic Rapport.
What is the 4th or last level.
Teaching in the absence of behaviors designed to set clear expectations for the youth.
What is Planned/ Preventive Teaching?
Remain pleasant, follow rules, avoid being overly celebratory, congratulate the loser, and avoid bragging.
What is Sportsmanship?
The amount of time you have to notify the guardian and send an incident report for a missed medication.
What is 24 hours?
An event that has proven to be reinforcing may lose its reinforcing value if presented too frequently or too close in time to the previous presentation.
What is Satiation?
The first level of the verbal escalation continuum.
What is Questioning?
The sixth component of a teaching interaction.
What is Request for Acknowledgement?
Acknowledge others, use pleasant and calm voice tones, play by the rules and be fair, Ignore negative comments directed at you, smile, compliment others, don't interject into others' conversations.
What is Peer Relations?
What allows the youth to enjoy freedom of thought, conscience, and religion?
What are Youth Rights?
A reinforcer that is presented following some occurrences of the behavior, to retain emphasis on the behavior once it has been established. example: slot machine
What is Intermittent Reinforcement?
The three P's that describe a Supportive Stance.
What are Position, Posture, and Proximity?
It includes the steps of Preventive, Crisis Intervention, Intensive teaching, and Follow Up.
What is Intensive Teaching?
Admit mistakes, say, "I did... ", acknowledge your part in the situation, seek solution, Make "I" statements
What is Accepting Responsibility?
The two months in which evening weather drills are required.
What are April and October?